Gov. DeSantis calls suspect a 'scumbag,' says attack was 'a very cowardly act'

[PrincessMorgan]

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Source: NBC.com

Dennis Romero and Alec Hernández

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he spoke to Jacksonville Sheriff Waters about the shooting and called the suspect a "scumbag" and his actions "a very cowardly act."

DeSantis, who was campaigning today in Manly, Iowa, for the Republican nomination for president, spoke about the violence in a video.

"This shooting, based on the manifesto that they discovered from the scumbag that did this, was racially motivated," DeSantis said. "He was targeting people based on their race. That is totally unacceptable."


The governor offered condolences to family of the victims.

"This guy killed himself rather than face the music and accept responsibility for his actions," the governor said. "And so he took the coward’s way out. But we condemn what happened in the strongest possible terms."

DeSantis, who just finished a two-day PAC-sponsored bus tour of northwest Iowa, will be returning home early from campaigning, spokesperson Jeremy Redfern said.

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Desantis basically got rid of black history, told us slavery was beneficial, and called us woke. His rhetoric did this today. And today is the day of the March on Washington as well. When the Buffalo massacre happens tuckker Carlson said something about a replacement theory. There rhetoric does this to us.

[texasfiddler]

1. Why is DeSantis backstabbing his own supporters?

[ret5hd]

6. Because this scumbag...

said…I mean shot…the quiet part out loud.

First rule of Club Nazi: don’t get caught.

[Freethinker65]

2. Said as Ron paid to load another bus of Hispanic immigrants to California.

[TDale313]

3. You own this, asshole

Or at least a big piece of it. You can’t stoke these flames of racism and not expect there to be consequences.

[IzzaNuDay]

12. +1

I hope the next time DeathSantis makes the news show rounds someone has the cojones to bring up exactly what you said!

[LiberaBlueDem]

4. Keep guns out of the hands of scumbags and cowards

But we hardly even try. Background checks and red flag laws might but then there is that 2nd.

Really, every gun onwer should be in a militia, which would be well regulated, keeping scumbags and cowards gunless.

[Karadeniz]

5. How helpful.....

[oasis]

7. The consequences of stirring up shit. nt

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

8. DeKlantis

YOU GAVE THIS FUCKER PERMISSION WITH YOUR RHETORIC. GO TO HELL.

[hay rick]

9. DeSantis is angry all the time.

Given his race-baiting history and aggressive race-based discrimination, he knows he will be ridiculed and blamed for this. He knows that this is one more story that will be added to the media frame of a mismanaged and failing campaign. He deserves far worse.

[Skittles]

10. you know what a REAL coward is, Ron?

SOMEONE WHO REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE AMERICA HAS A FUCKING GUN PROBLEM

[NBachers]

11. Cross out "Scumbag" and insert "Republican."

[Mysterian]

13. Seems like deranged DeSantis is more upset about the murderer killing himself

than the innocent victims.

[RAB910]

14. Only the Republican Nazis need to clarify this as unacceptable

[Baitball Blogger]

15. Said one scumbag about the other.

[tulipsandroses]

16. How pathetic. I didn't expect anything else from this POS

Let’s not forget that you accept support from Nazis. You don’t deem them unacceptable when they show open support for you. No one should let him forget this. He should be asked every single time he faces the media. His outright cruelty, hate and disdain for blacks and other vulnerable minorities put them squarely in the crosshairs of murderers for simply existing. He needs to answer for it.

[Omaha Steve]

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